Benefits Many federal contractors are wasting significant amounts of time and increasing audit risk and exposure by the improper use of price and cost analysis. Many contractors and Government oversight officials do not understand the true requirements contained in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) regarding the use of Price Analysis versus Cost Analysis. This results in significant time and expense preparing and justifying detailed cos...

Benefits Many federal contractors are wasting significant amounts of time and increasing audit risk and exposure by the improper use of price and cost analysis. Many contractors and Government oversight officials do not understand the true requirements contained in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) regarding the use of Price Analysis versus Cost Analysis. This results in significant time and expense preparing and justifying detailed cos...

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made some major advances in improving the future of government information system security. How do you leverage all of these advances to successfully meet your 2012 FISMA requirements? This 2-day course explains the specifics of these advances and provides strategies for leveraging them into meeting your individual and enterprise FISMA resp...

Benefits EPA used to hold all of the cards when it issued an administrative order. A recipient could not challenge the factual or legal basis: it could either perform the remedy or wait for EPA to file an enforcement action and bring these challenges in the context of that action. Such a course had significant risks, because the penalties could be doubled for failing to comply with an order. Just recently, however, in U.S. v. Sackett, the Supr...

Benefits EPA used to hold all of the cards when it issued an administrative order. A recipient could not challenge the factual or legal basis: it could either perform the remedy or wait for EPA to file an enforcement action and bring these challenges in the context of that action. Such a course had significant risks, because the penalties could be doubled for failing to comply with an order. Just recently, however, in U.S. v. Sackett, the Supr...

Benefits FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program plays a very important role in protecting communities and their residents and businesses from the disaster caused by flooding. It publicizes the areas of greatest flood risk, restricts construction with high flood risk, and provides insurance for the flood losses that are excluded from most homeowners and general business policies. These activities have a critical impact on the ability of local...

The 2012 Integrated Medical, Public Health, Preparedness and Response Training Summit is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This training summit brings together HHS partners including the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS), the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC), the Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP), and the United States Public Health Service (USPHS). The In...

Benefits This live audio conference will describe Section 6409(a) of the Middle Class Tax Relief Act, enacted in February, which requires state and local approval of cell tower collocations and other wireless tower modifications. It will describe the many legal and technical issues under this new statute, including what towers are covered, what modifications are covered and which of the many state and local laws (zoning, codes, environmental,...

Description: America's newest generation, the Millennials are in the middle of this coming-of-age phase of its life cycle. Its oldest members are approaching age 30; its youngest are approaching adolescence. Who are they? How are they different from -- and similar to -- their parents? How is their moment in history shaping them? And how might they, in turn, reshape the world in the decades ahead?

Developed by Human Capital Media, publishers of Chief Learning Officer, Talent Management and Diversity Executive magazines, Talent Strategies D.C. will be the first conference of its kind to bring together key human capital constituencies within various government agencies, branches of the military and leading private organizations, to explore the intersection between public and private industry human capital practice.This event will delve in...